The Headlights in the car may had been good at one time however I wanted to
bring them up to a bit more modern day. The 7" round lights fit in there nice
and to make any thing different would require total rebuild of the front and
most likely mess up the classic look of the car. There are tons of after market
bolt in replacement lights, some are multi beam and filament LED light modules
with angel eyes and turn signals which the updated harness had been wired for
when it was rebuild during initial rewire during engine
replacement/upgrade.
Decided to have original round look but use Bi-Xenon main light modules. This
will give the main lo/hi beam at much brighter light output and also incorporate
ring for marker lights as Day Time Running Lights and extra orange filament for
turn signal.The problem with the HID modules is that its much deeper then the
factory stamped bucket and that it needs driver ballast for the HID bulb. There
is pleanty or space for deeper bucket but the problem is to have it remade out
of metal which might have had been lots of trial and error of work and may not
work at the end. or make a completely new bucket. the new bucket idea apealed
more as we could contour it to shape that was best suited for the need and
the natural choice was to make it out of fiberglass.
Had made plug for the bucket some time ago when reach speaker shelf was being
make along with the right rear sail panel. One sample of the bucket was made and
was abandoned for some time. However as the engine was rebuild decided to finish
the lights.
Originally the thought was to make adaptor for the round light module, however
as its most likely will never be used decided to just make the adapter to the
HID projector and rest of the lights.
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